Red vs. Blue: Episode 8: A Fistful of Colours

It’s all been leading to this. On a desert planet in the middle of nowhere, the Reds and Blues find themselves face to face with the truth of their colorful imposters. The truth is revealed, and it's something they never saw coming.

If nothing else, I gotta admit that's a hell of a title choice, and one long ass joke in the making. For reference, there used to be Halo maps by the name of Hang 'Em High Tombstone, both of which were pretty barren maps if I'm remembering right, but they were also references to old western films. Fistful of Colours is a refence the the Fistful of Dollars Trilogy. Gotta love that worldplay.

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sanokalFIRST Member Star(s)Indication of membership status - One star is a FIRST member, two stars is Double Gold

9 months ago

Dammit, Surge should have been called Major.

I say this only because there's twin brothers at another branch of my work called Sergeant and Major, and they keep getting mistaken for one another.

that water base is like a reminder of the old days of Red vs blue old halo 2 days with hat underground map I loved that map did not play it much. me and my brother, stop brother, and a friend of my brother played lock out and would play blood gulch from time to time

It's official, RT said 'fuck it,' and decided to divide by zero this season. I don't know what pair is worse... the Donuts, the Sarges, the Cabooses... my head hurts.

But not enough to ask a simple question. If the UNSC is killing off everyone that's part of the project, then why are the sim troopers hitting targets. I don't know, the fact that they're acting so docile and that they blew off the whole Chorus bit leads to some skepticism. Plus, with these cockbites (why don't they use that term anymore?) they always get into the wrong end of the situation first, like on Chorus how they were made to believe the war only to find out that was a ruse. Something tells me Temple skimmed over a detail or two, I think there's more to that 'cloaking device' then just keeping them hidden.

One more point that makes this sketchy, if the UNSC is killing off everyone, why didn't this group go and seek to rally all the other sim trooper squads before doing anything else?

Okay, crack theory here that I just can't get out of my mind: the Blues and Reds are from a sort of mirror universe where the characters who are heroes in the main universe are villians, and vice-versa. Think the Crime Syndicate in relation to the Justice League. I still don't trust Temple and his men, especially considering that their actions in the first episode seemed like a deliberate, premeditated attack rather than a simple misunderstanding like they told our heroes. What kind of innocent party would deliberately plant timed explosives and leave behind a bloody calling card? They were probably going to just tell the Reds and Blues that they had nothing to do with the attacks, but when they saw Dylan was with them, they had to come up with an excuse as to why they were there. My theory is that they're going to pull a Felix sooner or later. Do I believe this 100%? No. For one thing, that would be kind of a retread of the Chorus saga, and I know RT is smarter than that. Also, dimensional travel is not a concept that has even been alluded to in canon so far (hell, even the existence of time travel in their universe is up for debate, seeing as how every time it seems to have happened, it ends up not being the case.) It would be a bit out of nowhere to all of a sudden estabish that this is possible in their world, but thanks to Season 14, we do know an RvB multiverse exists in some form, so it wouldn't be completely unprecedented. And remember the tagline of the trailer for this episode? "This Sunday, universes collide." (Or something to that extent.) Just a little something to think on.

TL;DR: Temple's crew are the Blood Gulch Crew's evil twins from another dimension, and I'm a crazy person who overthinks fiction and doesn't even believe his own theory outright.

I don't know what my favorite part is, Simmons being Tsundere 101 as hell for Grif. The KISS reference with the other Simmons or the fact that with two Donuts, they are quite literally the Ambiguously Gay Duo.

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im assuming they knew which direction the sensor was that got triggered by the wasps

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9 months ago

I'm not complaining, but what's up with their release schedule? They normally have a set day and now it seems like it trends towards "whatever" day towards the end of the week. Seems kinda wonky to me. Again, not complaining, but they've done this for years without straying a single day from any other releases.

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9 months ago

Oh that's right, thanks man.

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Legit Purpose

9 months ago

What if the others were the creations that Church came up with while imprisoned. They escaped into robot bodies and exacted revenge on the captors because the scarred memories from church were a part of them.

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9 months ago

honestly!! best episode yet!!!!

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9 months ago

Anybody else feel like this was a trap for Washington and Carolina? Since they are killing off the freelancers?

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9 months ago

I just want to know how mad Church will be when he finds out they "replaced" him ..... again but I guess he wouldn't know about the first time when it was Wash.

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The Lord of Kê

9 months ago

I don't think the Church who sent the message even knows he was replaced; If it is the Alpha like I am starting to believe(keep in mind, I have no belief this is Epsilon, and my belief is more 30/70 on whether this is Alpha), then he has been imprisoned since Season 6, and has no idea of any events since then. If this is a trap set up by the UNSC, then they are MORE than capable of creating a NEW AI based off of Epsilon or the Alpha

@TheDistur6edGuy It's definitely not Epsilon. IIRC, either Burnie or Miles confirmed that they would be retiring Epsilon for good after Season 13. They never said anything about Alpha, however. That said, if this is the original Alpha and not a duplicate (the latter of which is unlikely, seeing as how the man Alpha was based on is now dead, as well as every personality fragment, so an identical copy should now be impossible to make) they'd have to come up with something really good in order to explain how he survived the EMP (or emp, as it is definitely 100% pronounced.)

Why is everyone saying the blues and reds are evil i don't believe they could convince people to kill themselves (Essentially) to keep their illusion up and no i don't think it's a bunch of robots. We heard their voices for a reason. (Also the robots in this show appear to be sentient so same principle applies) Also why do we care that there isn't a fake grif they all act very similarly to there counterparts (Except Temple) So maybe he didn't want to deal with people shooting him "I don't want to be shot at, I don't want to shoot at people I JUST WANT TO CHILL" Come on guys they show you these things for a reason. Now they could be working for another group we haven't heard of but considering they are all appearing very stupid they probably are. It is certain that they're not working with the UNSC. And the fact that they have very similar names isn't anything I've met 3 other people with my name and a lot of people not related to me with my last name and it is not common. So the fact that they're acting strange towards the end is probably the same reason sheila started acting strange in season 5 is probably the same as why their acting strange, potato's. So if they are evil they're either working for their own agenda or some other evil corporation that we haven't met there seems to be a lot of those in this show.

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ReviewingTerms

9 months ago

Starting to think this season's a pun on Alternative Facts; Blues & Reds instead of Reds & Blues, slightly adjusted names with either similar spelling or theme, and the other differences are specific (i.e, it's canon that Tucker never gets the sniper rifle while Buckley has one, while Temple missed multiple shots at a moving target but eventually hit, which iirc Church never pulled off shooting a stationary target). To that end, can't be sure how 'true' anything they say is (don't recall those ships being UNSC but maybe I'm out-of-date), and fake Grif aside, there's also no fake Doc (yet) and Temple seems more like a Flowers/Church hybrid than outright Church (maybe in part because his team actually regards him as their singular leader).

I really wouldn't call doc a red or blue he kind of just disappears for seasons on end only appearing randomly or when the story demands it and to mention the fact that doc is a very forgettable face according to the reds and blues also he's only helpful when he has an evil persona that can't escape via helmet radio

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9 months ago

So Temple was the one who left his bloody helmet behind in episode 1

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Patrick Englehart

9 months ago

yes

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9 months ago

Im with Tucker on this one...This did just get fucking weird lol BUT I LIKE IT!

I HAVE AN AMAZING THEORY THAT WILL BLOW UR MIND CABOOSE IS ACTUALLY A MAGE HOW WELL IN SEASON 4 EP 65 HE SAID HE WOULD BE A MAGE/WIZARD ALSO HE HAS THE ABILITY TO TELEPORT LIKE A MAGICIAN ALSO HE IS REALLY STUPID BUT ALSO HAS A POWER TO KNOW SHARK FACES NAME AND THINGS THAT THE REST OF THE REDS AND BLUES UNDERSTAND SO IT IS CONFIRMED HE IS MAGIC

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9 months ago

Neat

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Before Caboose interrupts, Temple sounded a lot like one of those zealots Caboose and Sarge ran into. Maybe after learning that Red and Blue bases were nothing more than Freelancer playgrounds, he needed something else to latch onto. And maybe AlterGrif didn't play along... And at the end of the next episode, their alphabet soups will have only H, E, L, P, U, and S floating around.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need sleep.

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ExplosiveNinjaFIRST Member Star(s)Indication of membership status - One star is a FIRST member, two stars is Double Gold

9 months ago

ALSO! THE WHOLE THING SMELLS "FISHY"!!!!!!

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ExplosiveNinjaFIRST Member Star(s)Indication of membership status - One star is a FIRST member, two stars is Double Gold

9 months ago

Any thoughts on what the hell is going on here....?

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9 months ago

Don't care.

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Northern Assassin

I think they're actually clones of some kind. The similarities in mannerisms and names is too convenient.

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9 months ago

Commenting at -8:24.

I bet it's the Alpha Fragments. Like how Season 12 Delta was actually Epsilon-Delta and all that. The Caboose Caboose is talking to is Alpha-Caboose.

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Evil_ParagonFIRST Member Star(s)Indication of membership status - One star is a FIRST member, two stars is Double Gold

9 months ago

Damn, well it was a good thought while it lasted.

Edit: Actually now that I think of it again, Alpha thought he was Church. Who's to say that these might be Alpha duplicates that don't remember being made and they think they are real people when they're all fragmented AIs?

The only one that doesn't seem like an AI to me is Surge. We know very well that S14E3 that that personality is common enough that multiple of them can be assembled in an area for picking one out. Buckshot, Daggerknife, MacGruff... uh oh. When you get those personalities in a close area they destroy each other... that can't be good for Sarge...

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9 months ago

I dunno, they seemed to have sorted out a chain of command, and they're not competing against each other...

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